October 25 2008

Saturday Morning. This week was a pretty decent week. Most mornings I wake up feeling pretty good and by the afternoon I am slowing down and usually go to bed about 8:30 to 9:30. Of course I wake up early around 4am but I always wake up early. One more radiation treatment Monday and I think I will receive the large chemo dose which takes about 4 hours on Monday. That should complete that phase. The next 4-6 weeks I will be trying to get up to snuff for the surgery. I am going to try to have that done by the 15th of December. With a little luck I will be heading for Mexico in early Feburary.
For those of you who wonder about chemo and radiation--my experience has been better than I thought it would be. There have been a few bad days but overall it is just a matter of trudgeing through it and staying as active as one can. Everyone responds differently and I think I have been one of the lucky ones. The goal of this is to basically burn out the growth and leave an ulcer which is then cut out. The naseusa makes food less than attractive and the burning is like swallowing a steel brush dipped in jalepena'. The good news not every bite goes down like that--the bad news is sometimes you innocently take a swallow and your face responds like an infant given a lemon---yuck! So you stand up and bounce around trying to get it to go down---thinking that is the last time I put that shit in my mouth, then the director takes over and waggles the fork or spoon at you like your some kind of infant---okay okay like a big baby--eat your damned spinach--no--eat NO! EAT---gimme the damned fork. Life with the Director aint no pic nic. Dont tell me about Marine DI's. Have a good week-end.